I’m very happy to have had an article published on the website of the New Zealand Science Teacher, the official publication of the New Zealand Association of Science Educators. My article is about applied kinesiology, I’ve embedded the introduction below and you can read the whole thing on the NZST website: Finding Power and balance: […] … Read More

The Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) is part of the healthcare system in New Zealand. To quote themselves on their purpose, they provide “comprehensive, no-fault personal injury cover for all New Zealand residents and visitors to New Zealand”. To put it simply, if you hurt yourself in an accident in New Zealand, ACC will likely pay […] … Read More

Every week I get a number of email alerts about various online medical journals. Each email represents the opportunity for blogging material though many are deathly dull. Several of the journals I receive alerts from are in the AltMed domain and I sometimes wonder why I bother looking through them at all. The mix is … Read More

by Peter Tuchin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Chiropractic, Maquarie University Chiropractic has copped some criticism this week, with a group of prominent Australian doctors and scientists urging Central Queensland University to reverse its decision to offer a chiropractic degree from 2012. The group claims chiropractic isn’t based on evidence and therefore … Read More

I’ve just been informed that the NZ College of Chiropractic will be attending the University Of Canterbury Careers Fair in an attempt to recruit science students. The fair is being held on Monday the 16th May in the NZi3 foyer from 5pm – 8pm. Given how much it costs to see a chiropractor, this will probably seem like … Read More

Some readers may recall that some time ago I wrote about Simon Singh being sued by the British Chiropractors’ Association. Simon Singh and Professor Ernst are author of a book, Trick or Treatment, which presents the background and evidence, or rather lack of it, for a number of suspect therapeutic practices including acupuncture, … Read More

A dissection of an advertisement in which a local chiropractor tries to make vitalism sound credible It’s been a very long time since I have taken the local chiropractor to task over one of his advertisements. I’m not able to give a full dose of Respectful Insolence in Orac’s inimitable style, but the chiropractor’s … Read More

Simon Singh (Source: wikipedia) A few minutes ago I learnt from scibling Ken Perrott that the British Chiropractors’ Association (BCA) have served a Notice of Discontinuance, meaning that they are dropping their libel case against Simon Singh. Great news! For those wishing to follow events, the Jack … Read More

Simon Singh (Source: wikipedia) This news awaits formal confirmation, but early reports are that the Court of Appeal judges found that: Singh’s assertion that there was “not a jot of evidence” that chiropractic could treat certain conditions was “a statement of opinion, and one backed by reasons”. “bogus”, which Justice Eady defined as being an allegation of … Read More

Science writer and journalist Simon Singh, who faces a libel suit from the British Chiropractic Association (BCA) for writing that a number of chiropractic claims of treatment of disorders unrelated to the spinal cord such as asthma were ’bogus’ has written in his column that it will be the last. He is resigning his job in order … Read More

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